And if you can't make it on Friday, look for these authors and their books on Saturday Sept 18th at 1pm at Pastaworks on SE Hawthorne in Portland, held in conjunction with Powell's Books right next door.

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In the Seattle area, from Sept. 15-28th, Metropolitan Market presents its annual "For the Love of Cheese" event. At all six locations, stores will be celebrating the great bounty of local cheese with in-store events with local cheesemakers such as Black Sheep Creamery, Estrella Family Creamery, Gothberg Farms and many others. No doubt there will be plenty of cheese to sample, savor and purchase throughout the promotion!

This weekend's events:

Friday 9/17 Brad Gregory from Black Sheep Creamery will be at the Proctor store (Tacoma) from 3-7pm.